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Youth Lagoon - Lucy Takes A Picture
Song of the Day: Following his fourth album Heaven Is a Junkyard (2023), a delicate, beautiful new single about angels by Idaho artist Trevor Powers, inspired by finding a piece of paper tucked into the bars of a bus-stop metal bench
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Rosie Lowe
Song of the Day: An exotic, intimate, seductively slow, atmospheric new single by the British singer-songwriter capturing the feeling of a warm evening and expressing a form of self-love
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Lava La Rue
Song of the Day: After fabulous singles and EPs, a sparkling psychedelic pop number about mixing platonic and romantic love to herald the west London artist’s forthcoming debut album Starface, sci-fi-themed about alien visitor, and all about what makes us human
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Colin Stetson
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, looping, primal and delicately beautiful experimental work by the saxophonist from Montréal, Canada, here on the alto with the title track of his upcoming new album and one described as “a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain”
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J.R.C.G’s forthcoming debut LP Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra), on Sub Pop
Song of the Day: With a fantastically meaty, dark thrum, groove and infectious abstraction, a new post-punk single by the Tacoma, Washington-based artist Justin R. Cruz Gallego, from from his forthcoming debut album Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra) out on 2 August via Sub Pop Records
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Size matters: from the video for Orlando Weeks’s Dig featuring Rhian Teasdale from Wet Leg
Song of the Day: The now Lisbon-based British singer-songwriter returns with an engagingly original song about a “tit-for-tat, under-your-breath half-argument of the kind that happens in public” joined by half of Wet Leg on back vocals and a fabulous video directed by Matt Harris-Freeth
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The incomparable and irrepressible Uche Yara
Song of the Day: With a unique delivery and distinctive cocktail of beats and interweaving vocal harmonies, the charismatic, eclectic Berlin-based, Austrian singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter returns with the opening from her new EP, Golden Days
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upsammy - Embrytone, from the Maloca Records release titled SIIIX, Vol.1
Song of the Day: Superbly intricate rhythms, chimes and other delicate sounds abound in this absorbingly original latest single by the electronic musician aka Thessa Torsing from Amsterdam
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Jon Hopkins’ forthcoming album, RITUAL
Song of the Day: The innovative British electronic musician returns with a mesmeric lead single designed to capture the idea of “opening portals within your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried” and heralds his forthcoming electronic symphony album, RITUAL, out on 30 August via Domino Records
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Baba Ali - Heart Racer
Song of the Day: A cleverly crafted, catchy, crunchy, fuzzy and taut new wave-style synth-rock-pop number by the London duo Baba Doherty and Nik Balchin, one that explores the adrenalin of speed and danger
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Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say (I Runaway)
Song of the Day: A welcome return by the highly original London singer-songwriter with a rich crunchy guitar soundscape, ticking beats and echoes of 90s alternative radio with lyrics on the theme of realising the preciousness of time
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Sans Soucis - Sexed and Sexual
Song of the Day: A sensual, funky and stylish new dance number by the London artist, written through the lens of a very personal early teenage story, a song about sexual liberation, but also a critique of the hyper-sexualised society we live in
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Kaeto’s striking new look in the video for Don't Ask
Song of the Day: Funky, groovy, smooth and stylish, but with candid, caustic feminist lyrics about body and self-image come in this brilliant new single and video by the innovative Scottish London-based artist
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Brijean’s forthcoming album Macro
Song of the Day: An infectiously catchy, wonderfully oddball funk-disco single by the LA-based singer and percussionist Brijean Murphy of Toro Y Moi and Poolside, here with multi-instrumentalist and producer Doug Stuart, also delivering an alluringly lazy vocal style, which gives extra appeal considering the subject matter
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Yannis & The Yaw: the Foals’ frontman’s upcoming EP project
Song of the Day: Fabulous drumming from a past session by the departed legend Tony Allen, and passionate blues-rock vocals from Foals’ frontman Yannis Philippakis in this opening track from his new project and upcoming EP, Lagos Paris London – out on 30 August via Transgressive Records
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Douglas Dare’s forthcoming fourth album, Omni
Song of the Day: A new single from the British singer-songwriter and pianist’s forthcoming fourth album, Omni, brings tender melodies, but leaves aside chamber pop acoustic instruments for electronica and synths in the spirit and influence of other artists such as Arca and the late SOPHIE, and with echoes also of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yellow Magic Orchestra
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Imogen and the Knife
Song of the Day: A fabulously dark, smoky, brooding, visceral debut single with richly swelling orchestration by the British singer-songwriter Imogen Williams, one about a failing relationship expressed in vivid, recurring dream, and “a waking realisation that unless addressed, the dream, and the pain, won’t leave”
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Formal Sppeedwear
Song of the Day: A brilliantly wonky and original mixture of clever, oddball riff, arrhythmic post-punk/new wave by the Stoke on Trent trio from their upcoming self-titled EP, with echoes of XTC and Talking Heads and Scary Monsters-era Bowie
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Solo Moderna
Song of the Day: A quirky, cheeky, catchy mix of Afro-Latin rhythms and old-school, 8-Bit 80s and 70s synth-pop with clever Kraftwerk-inspired sampling by the Dutch producer Bas Voorn, and guest vocals by Kristel “krage” Peijnenborg
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Maria Chiara Argirò’s forthcoming album, Closer
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, infectious, sensual synth-pop with added trumpet by the London-based Italian artist originally from Rome, in this number about “establishing a lighter and balanced relationship with your inner self and consequently with others”
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